Swain with Lissandra
How to Synergize Swain and Lissandra
based on 1,120 Swain with Lissandra pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Swain Lissandra Synergy Summary
Best Swain vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Swain with Lissandra
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Advice to Understand How Lissandra Will Play
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Swain Lissandra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lissandra as Swain in LoL
The Swain Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lissandra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lissandra helps Swain perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain is paired with Lissandra, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Lissandra does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played together with Lissandra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lissandra.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Lissandra on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Swain in teamfights.
Synergies between Swain and Lissandra
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Is Swain better when played alongside Lissandra?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Swain that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Lissandra is a not very good teammate for Swain. By being on the same team as Swain, she drops their win rate by -2.5% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Swain and Lissandra that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lissandra has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be careful when enlisting Lissandra teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Swain and Lissandra together, you will not be granting your side very much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Lissandra teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain in order to work well with Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Swain and Lissandra synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Lissandra than with many other common builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Lissandra with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Swain players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Swain and Lissandra pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Lissandra with Swain are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.